Improvement in the construction of jjorse-power for cotton-gins



matted tatt i ,JAMES MALBERTSONOF NEW. LONDON, coNNnorIc'Ur Letters Patent No. 7103,82'1, dated 7 ,I 1 870; antedtttecl May 1870.

, .IMPRQYEMENT 1N THE CONSTRUCTION ,or Rsn-P'ofvnn FoR'coTrou-GINS, are.'

The Schedule referred to in these Itetters` Patent and part of the saine.'

` Be it known that I, J AMES M. ALBERTsoN,-of the town and county of New London, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Method of Constructing Cotton-Gin Houses; and If do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear. and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this 'specification and to letters of reference marked thereon,.in lwhich- Figure 1 is averticahand Figure 2, ahorizontal plan.

This invention relates to an improved method of constructing cotton-gin houses, so that animal power may be more easily introduced than by methods now in use, and at a greatly reduced expense, by permitting the use of a much smaller building than theones new generally constructed for this purpose, and con-l siste in so adapting the building that the animals used travel around it on the outside and not within it.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will here describe the construction and operation. l

A represents the cotton-gin house with a hip roof', or one iu which all the rafters meet in a common central point.

At this point is placed a hollow box, B, provided with projections or fianges for thereception and support of the rafters R R It,the space within it being v' suited to the `reception and revolution of the verticommunicating Ythe power. ,t g

I am aware that the'method of applying power lol'v animals to 'machinery placed within theirtraveled cirj cular path by means of a vertical shaft and levers is" very old, and is in use vin many forms, such as presses, mills, &e., but am not aware thatbuildings have ever cal shaft S, to. the' upper end of which levers,-If L,4

of any convenient-form, are attached, and .to tliehottom of whicha gear orl other Wheelv isgjattached` for!! been so constructed as to render'the direct applicationV ot' this form of power practicable,'and also to accom plish the important results attained by this invention;

I 'do not, therefore, claim this form or means of'apf. plying animal power as my invention, but only the,-

arrangement of the building as claimed, to render its' application practica-ble.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to securev by Letters Patent, isl 'In combination with the rafters R R R of a hip roof, the hollow boX B, placed at their intersectionA and provided with project-ions or flanges for the sup-'- 1 port of the same, the space within the box B being suited to the reception and revolution of a vertical shaft, substantially as herein described and for the purpose set forth.

JAS. M. ALBERTSON. Witnesses:

H. J. GRocKna, `-C. KELTERBORN. 

